Leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, 3–12 × 2–6.5 cm, abaxially light green, veins and leaf surface with small white papillae, margin serrate. Fruit often solitary, lobes (grooves) 4 or 5, crowned by 4- or 5-divided stigma.

Streamsides in Abies or Tsuga forests and in thickets; 2100–3400 m. SE Gansu, S Shaanxi, NE and SW Sichuan.